Quotes About Solitude

I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.

I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.

I quite like sort of being able to walk down the street with no one noticing.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

You really disconnect yourself from the world being in the middle of nowhere.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

I am nowhere near social media.

I just love being in the middle of nowhere.

I was put in the Anda cell at the Arthur Road jail which is the most secluded cell. You have no contact with anyone and you don't even get newspapers. I was completely numb.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

Sometimes I feel like distance helps observation.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.

Writing is a very isolating occupation.

It is a credo for lonely people: My heart is my church.